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3 High-Impact, Low-Lift Ways to Foster Learner Agency
Rachel Riggio shares 3 actionable ways you can get started with right away to foster learner agency in the classroom.
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The Role of Reading in Learner-Centered Education
Literacy is at the heart of learner-centered education. Uncover how reading supports four critical components of the learner-centered education and contributes to student success.
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5 Ways to Foster Learner-Centered Innovation Through Professional Learning Cycles
Learning at any age requires clarity of objectives or goals, continued practice, feedback cycles, and plans for iteration and growth. This is why professional learning is best done through learning cycles instead of being a one-and-done event. These learning cycles promote a culture of sharing and innovation and oftentimes are best done in Communities…
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You Are More Ready for Learner-Centered Than You May Think
Learner-centered education has never been more possible and, if you’re a teacher, school leader, or parent, you are more ready than you think.
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Now Is the Time for Learner-Centered, Whole-Child Education
Measuring whether a school is supporting interest-driven, whole-child development, or not, will be imperative as we evaluate the progress of individual learners and of our collective system.
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Uncovering the True Purpose of Assessment
In a learner-centered classroom, assessment is not done to but rather with the learner. Assessment becomes less about determining what a student doesn’t know or can’t do, but instead the emphasis shifts to providing opportunities for students to show what they do know and can do.
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Catalyst Newsletter
Catalyst Newsletter from Devin Vodicka- Learner-centered insights and resources for educators, leadership teams, and change-makers.
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Bright Spots Newsletter
Bright Spots from Katie Martin- Your weekly source of learner-centered inspiration.
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What’s Possible in Learner-Centered Education
As the world continues to evolve and change in dynamic ways, there is an increasingly urgent call to create schools that meet the needs of learners in our world today to equip them with the academic and social skills that are critical for success in work, life, and citizenship.
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Inspiration for Co-Founding Learner-Centered Collaborative
CEO Devin Vodicka and CIO Katie Martin share what inspired them to co-found Learner-Centered Collaborative.
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Introducing Learner-Centered Collaborative
First of a 3-part series from Learner-Centered Collaborative’s leaders, Devin Vodicka and Katie Martin.
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When Learning Is Authentic
Authentic learning experiences can feel at odds with school systems and structures, but they don’t have to. Katie Martin shares how schools are pushing the boundaries to successfully orient toward relevant, meaningful, real-world learning experiences.
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Why Curiosity is Foundational to Learning
If we want our children to develop new skills, knowledge, and mindsets, it is foundational to spark curiosity. Otherwise, even through our best efforts to teach them, they may not actually learn.
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What Does Your Ideal Learning Environment Look Like?
Leaders commonly use strategic plans or vision statements that describe the desire to develop life-long learners, global citizens, critical thinkers, and the like, yet a misalignment often occurs between the vision, policies, and practices. The tension between what we say we want our students to know and be able to do and what we…
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There has never been a better time for OER
Shifting to learner-centered experiences for all students is going to require many shifts, including the ways in which we think about outcomes and assessments, and providing flexible and open learning resources will be an important part of the change journey.
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To Engage Students, Focus on Connection Over Content
It’s important to understand how student’s emotions impact their attention, engagement, and what they learn. Scheduling time with each student to connect, learn more about their circumstances, their goals, and ideas, created a different dynamic that built empathy and allowed for more personalization and meaningful connection. Students also recommend, reaching out via text, calling…
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The connection between anti-racism and learner-centered education
A learner-centered paradigm, which begins with a respect for the jagged intersectionality of our unique identities, is required if we are to achieve our aspirations of reducing systemic inequalities in education and beyond. Explore how learner-centered education empowers learners to develop their unique identity through exercising agency in pursuit of real-world problem-solving.
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Reaffirming Our Commitment to Racial Equity and Inclusion
Advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging for all people is foundational to learner-centered education and is critical to what we want to achieve as leaders and as an organization.